Can I tank without backpeddle?

[RapBreon]

Cosmetically I'm sure it does, but logically in what way can you justify 50% movement speed without seeing where you're going (unless you hold V simultaneously) over 100% movement speed with precision movement in half the time and not turning your back toward the boss?

Can you back pedal? Sure. As a 5th turn coil tank and former top .5% of all PVPers on the World of Warcraft (where you must move behind and keep your target- a thinking PLAYER trying to prevent you from doing so- to stop them from using abilities or die) I would merely ask SHOULD you back pedal?

I am both of these things as well and I use back-pedal, the decreased movement speed has its uses. They're limited, but I'd gain literally nothing (an awkward as fuck extra hot-key I guess) by rebinding S as I can swivel and strafe out of almost anything to begin with anyway.

I use it to counter launch mechanics in MMO PvP all the time. S+A/D can move you diagonally and slowly in a direction by tiny margins (we're talking tippity taps) so that when they do knock-back they'll fling me into a flag-post or something silly (good example would be the lamp-posts in Huttball [SWOTR]). Attempting that by turning would put me a at a disadvantage as I may overshoot and fall off the ramp, miss a global or an auto. So in this circumstance I should.

I'm sure another person would feel entirely uncomfortable with this and prefer a different way. Is it better? For the specific situations I do it in? Maybe, I'd need proof and even then completely re-gearing the way I play games (more than just MMOs) might not be worth the minuscule performance increase.

Edit: if you can't see where you're going, your camera is way too close!

TL;DR: Back-pedalling can be justified in certain circumstances; bads who do it in PvP 24/7 gave it a stigma that envelopes anybody who hasn't unbound S to this day.

[Awake]

Can you back pedal? Sure. As a 5th turn coil tank and former top .5% of all PVPers on the World of Warcraft (where you must move behind and keep your target- a thinking PLAYER trying to prevent you from doing so- to stop them from using abilities or die) I would merely ask SHOULD you back pedal?

Hahaha thank you Sir you just made my day